CN218328779U - Ice making tray and ice making machine comprising same - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an ice making tray and an ice making machine comprising the same, which comprises an ice tray, a temperature sensor positioned at the bottom of the ice tray, a heat preservation piece and a heat preservation fixing frame, wherein the heat preservation piece is pasted at the bottom of the temperature sensor, and the heat preservation fixing frame is connected with the ice tray and covers the lower surface of the heat preservation piece; the bottom of the ice tray is provided with a first positioning part and a second positioning part which are abutted against two ends of the temperature sensor in the length direction, the heat preservation piece is provided with a claw part extending towards the width direction of the ice tray, and the claw part is fixed with a connecting block between adjacent ice making grooves. The utility model discloses earlier carry out length direction spacing through first location portion and second location portion to temperature sensor, guarantee that temperature sensor can not take place the displacement when the ice dish upset, the claw that the piece that keeps warm utilizes the side direction is fixed with the connecting block after that, and the deformation of ice making groove arouses the heat preservation portion to drop when can avoiding deicing to the problem that temperature sensor easily receives external environment interference has been solved.

Description

Ice making tray and ice making machine comprising same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, especially, relate to an ice machine that makes ice dish and contain it.

Background

The ice maker is generally provided with a temperature sensor at the bottom of the ice tray, and temperature information detected by the temperature sensor is transmitted to the control part during the ice making process to determine whether water in the ice tray is frozen into ice blocks, so as to determine whether to start the next operation. Generally, the temperature sensor needs to detect the temperature of the bottom of the ice tray, so a heat preservation component is arranged outside the temperature sensor to ensure that the temperature sensor is not interfered by the external environment when detecting the temperature.

The existing ice making machine usually does not have a positioning structure of a temperature sensor, the temperature sensor is limited mainly by a heat preservation structure, for example, the temperature sensor in patent No. CN109425164B is covered by a flexible component and is substantially completely covered, so that the movement of the temperature sensor in the length direction of the ice box can be avoided, and for example, the temperature sensor in patent No. JP2004286312A is also limited by covering a bent claw part of the heat preservation component (refer to fig. 1 in the publication).

For the completely coated heat-insulating component, in order to realize better matching with the temperature sensor, the shape of the heat-insulating component is often irregular, the processing and installation difficulty is large, the occupied area is large, and the heat-insulating component is easy to loosen when an ice tray is twisted and de-iced; to the insulation construction of local cladding formula, the perfect adaptation that the thermal insulation component hardly realized temperature sensor through the structure between the less ice making groove of volume is spacing, and in the use, temperature sensor or thermal insulation component can produce the skew to lead to temperature sensor's contact to expose, increaseed external environment to temperature sensor's interference, and then reduced ice making speed.

Therefore, a heat insulation structure of the temperature sensor, which is more convenient to install and can avoid the interference of the external environment, needs to be designed.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve prior art's ice machine heat preservation part processing, the installation degree of difficulty is big, and takes off easily when the ice tray distortion is iced, perhaps the heat preservation part is relatively poor to temperature sensor's spacing effect, leads to temperature sensor's contact to expose easily, has increaseed external environment to temperature sensor's interference, and then reduces the technical problem of system ice speed, the utility model provides an ice making dish and contain its ice machine and solve above-mentioned problem.

The utility model provides an ice making tray, which comprises an ice tray, a temperature sensor positioned at the bottom of the ice tray, a heat preservation piece and a heat preservation fixing frame, wherein the heat preservation piece is pasted at the bottom of the temperature sensor, and the heat preservation fixing frame is connected with the ice tray and covers the lower surface of the heat preservation piece; the bottom of the ice tray is provided with a first positioning part and a second positioning part which are abutted against two ends of the temperature sensor in the length direction, the heat preservation piece is provided with a claw part extending towards the width direction of the ice tray, and the claw part is fixed with a connecting block between adjacent ice making grooves.

Furthermore, the heat preservation piece is of an I-shaped plate-shaped structure, and four claw parts extend outwards along the width direction of the heat preservation piece.

Furthermore, the first positioning part is two limiting columns which are fixed at the bottom of the ice tray and are abutted against one end of the temperature sensor, and a lead of the temperature sensor is positioned between the two limiting columns.

Further, the second positioning part is a baffle fixed at the bottom of the ice tray and abutted against the other end of the temperature sensor.

Further, a rib plate is connected between the side surface of the baffle and the bottom of the ice tray.

Furthermore, the bottom of the ice tray is provided with two clamping parts which are oppositely arranged, and the heat-preservation fixing frame is provided with a convex part which is inserted into the two clamping parts.

Furthermore, the heat-preservation fixing frame comprises a pressing plate and wing arms extending outwards from two sides of the pressing plate, and the two protruding parts are respectively positioned at the edges of the two wing arms; the pressing plate is pressed on the lower surface of the heat preservation piece.

Furthermore, the finned arms are positioned at two ends of the pressing plate in the width direction, pressing sheets inclined towards the direction of the heat preservation piece are arranged at two ends of the finned arms in the length direction, and the pressing sheets are pressed on the surfaces of the claw parts in a one-to-one correspondence mode.

Furthermore, the wing arm includes the arc portion that one end is connected with the clamp plate and the L shape portion of bending of being connected with the other end of arc portion, and two arc portions and clamp plate form the groove type structure.

Furthermore, a gap is reserved between the heat-preservation fixing frame and the bottom of the ice tray, so that a heat dissipation channel is formed between the heat-preservation fixing frame and the ice tray.

Furthermore, the two clamping parts are in a long-strip-shaped hole-shaped structure.

The utility model also provides an ice maker, including above the ice tray.

The beneficial effects of the utility model are that:

(1) Ice making tray and contain its ice machine, it is spacing to carry out length direction to temperature sensor through first location portion and second location portion earlier, guarantee that temperature sensor can not take place the displacement when the ice dish upset, cover the heat preservation piece on temperature sensor after that, when covering the temperature sensor contact, it is fixed with the connecting block to utilize the claw of side direction, play the effect of keeping apart temperature sensor and external environment on the one hand, on the other hand can avoid when taking off ice the deformation in ice making groove arouses the heat preservation portion to drop, thereby the problem that temperature sensor easily receives external environment and disturbs has been solved.

(2) Ice making tray and contain its ice machine, the piece that keeps warm is I shape platelike structure, simple structure, and the processing cost is low, and the piece that keeps warm is good with the linkage effect of ice dish, plays fine isolation effect.

(3) Ice-making dish and contain its ice machine, the clamp plate that the heat preservation mounting made its middle part form the indent through the wing arm that has arc portion plays the effect that compresses tightly the heat preservation piece.

(4) Ice-making dish and contain its ice machine, the bottom of heat preservation mount and ice dish leaves the clearance to form the heat dissipation passageway between messenger's heat preservation mount and the ice dish, be convenient for the heat dissipation of ice dish.

Drawings

The present invention will be further explained with reference to the drawings and examples.

Fig. 1 is an exploded view of an ice-making tray according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is an enlarged view of an assembly portion of the temperature sensor and the ice tray;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the insulating member after assembly;

FIG. 4 is a top view of the insulated mount;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the assembled heat-insulating holder;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the first positioning portion cooperating with the temperature sensor;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the second positioning portion and the temperature sensor;

fig. 8 is a front view of the thermal fixing frame of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a transverse center sectional view of the ice-making tray of the present invention.

In the figure, 1, an ice tray, 2, a temperature sensor, 201, a lead wire, 3, a heat preservation piece, 301, a claw part, 4, a heat preservation fixing frame, 401, a convex part, 402, a pressing plate, 403, a wing arm, 4031, an arc part, 4032, an L-shaped bending part, 404, a pressing sheet, 5, an ice making groove, 6, a connecting block, 7, a limiting column, 8, a baffle, 9, a rib plate, 10, a clamping part, 11 and a heat dissipation channel.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary only for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Example one

As shown in fig. 1-8, an ice making tray, including ice tray 1, be located temperature sensor 2, heat preservation 3 and the heat preservation mount 4 of ice tray 1 bottom, temperature sensor 2 preferably is located ice tray 1 bottom center, and during the installation, temperature sensor 2 arranges in between the lateral wall of two adjacent ice making grooves 5, the utility model discloses the passageway extending direction between two ice making grooves 5 that use temperature sensor 2 place is length direction to the bottom surface central point line place direction of two ice making grooves 5 is width direction. The opening direction of the ice making groove 5 is set to be up, and vice versa.

The heat preservation piece 3 is adhered to the bottom of the temperature sensor 2, the heat preservation piece 3 needs to cover a contact of the temperature sensor 2 and is directly isolated from the external environment, and the heat preservation fixing frame 4 is connected with the ice tray 1 and covers the lower surface of the heat preservation piece 3 to fix the heat preservation piece 3; the bottom of ice dish 1 is equipped with first location portion and the second location portion with temperature sensor 2's length direction both ends butt, and temperature sensor 2 need not rely on heat preservation 3 location, but fixes a position through the fixed part of ice dish 1 bottom, assembles temperature sensor 2 in ice dish 1 bottom correct position through first location portion and second location portion, and when the opening part of ice making groove 5 was down, temperature sensor 2 can not squint in length direction. The heat preservation member 3 does not need to be designed with a complex shape to coat the temperature sensor 2.

The heat retaining member 3 has a claw portion 301 extending in the width direction of the ice tray 1, and the claw portion 301 is fixed to the connecting block 6 between the adjacent ice making grooves 5. When the ice tray 1 is twisted to remove ice, the twisted part is mainly located at the ice making groove 5, and the connecting block 6 is not twisted, so that the claw part 301 is connected to the connecting block 6 to prevent the heat insulating member 3 from falling off due to the connection relation between the claw part and the connecting block. And the claw part 301 is connected with the connecting block 6, so that the side of the heat preservation piece 3 can be attached to the ice tray 1 as much as possible, the contact between the temperature sensor 2 and the outside is reduced, and the interference of the external environment is reduced.

The heat preservation member 3 can be made of LDPE material. The heat insulating member 3 in this embodiment is preferably an i-shaped plate structure, and four claw portions 301 (shown in fig. 1) are extended outward from the heat insulating member 3 in the width direction. The heat preservation piece 3 can be fixed with the connecting block 6 and the temperature sensor 2 in a sticking mode, and specifically, the heat preservation piece 3 is provided with an adhesive on one side opposite to the temperature sensor 2. During assembly, one side of the heat preservation piece 3 provided with the adhesive can be attached to the temperature sensor 2, the middle of the heat preservation piece 3 can be attached to a contact of the temperature sensor 2, and the four claw parts 301 are attached to the connecting block 6 of the ice making groove 5 adjacent to the bottom of the ice tray 1 (as shown in fig. 3), so that the heat preservation piece 3 forms an enveloping shape for the temperature sensor 2. This 3 structures of heat preservation can effectual parcel temperature sensor 2's contact, and at the ice maker during operation, temperature sensor 2 only detects ice tray 1 bottom temperature, further reduces external environment influence, guarantees the normal operating of ice making.

The first positioning portion may be, but is not limited to, configured as follows: as shown in fig. 6, the first positioning portion is two positioning posts 7 fixed to the bottom of the ice tray 1 and abutting against one end of the temperature sensor 2, and the lead 201 of the temperature sensor 2 is located between the two positioning posts 7. The first positioning part can play a role in wire arrangement while limiting the temperature sensor 2.

As shown in fig. 7, the second positioning part may be a flapper 8 fixed to the bottom of the ice tray 1 and abutting the other end of the temperature sensor 2. The stopper post 7 and the baffle 8 are preferably perpendicular to the horizontal bottom surface of the ice tray 1. Preferably, a rib 9 is connected between a side surface of the shutter 8 and a bottom of the ice tray 1. The rib 9 has an effect of increasing the strength of the baffle 8.

The heat-insulating fixing frame 4 and the ice tray 1 are generally connected in a clamping manner, as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the bottom of the ice tray 1 has two oppositely arranged clamping portions 10, and the heat-insulating fixing frame 4 has a protruding portion 401 inserted into the two clamping portions 10. The clamping parts 10 are located at the bottom of the ice making groove 5 of the ice tray 1, the two clamping parts 10 are coaxially provided with through holes, and the two protrusions 401 respectively penetrate through the corresponding through holes to realize the connection with the ice tray 1. The clamping part 10 in the embodiment is a long strip hole-shaped structure, and the protruding part 401 is a cylindrical structure, so that compared with the existing structure in the industry, due to the fact that the long strip hole is large, when the heat-preservation fixing frame 4 is installed by a worker, the protruding part 401 can be clamped with the two clamping parts 10 more easily, and the assembling efficiency is improved.

The heat-preservation fixing frame 4 can specifically adopt the following structure: the heat-preservation fixing frame 4 comprises a pressing plate 402 and a wing arm 403 extending outwards from two sides of the pressing plate 402, and the two convex parts 401 are respectively positioned at the edges of the two wing arms 403; the pressing plate 402 is pressed against the lower surface of the thermal insulating member 3. The wing arms 403 have certain elasticity, and when the protrusion 401 is installed with the engaging portion 10, the wing arms 403 can be elastically deformed to facilitate installation.

Since the engaging portion 10 is located at the bottom of the ice making groove 5, when the thickness of the thermal insulation member 3 is small, the pressing plate 402 and the protruding portion 401 are not in the same plane, and the pressing plate 402 needs to be recessed between the two ice making grooves 5, the wing arm 403 has a bending structure, as shown in fig. 8, the wing arm 403 includes an arc-shaped portion 4031 with one end connected to the pressing plate 402 and an L-shaped bending portion 4032 connected to the other end of the arc-shaped portion 4031, and the protruding portion 401 is installed at the end of the L-shaped bending portion 4032. The two arc-shaped portions 4031 and the pressing plate 402 form a groove-shaped structure, so that the pressing plate 402 and the protruding portion 401 are not at the same height, and the arc-shaped portions 4031 can generate elasticity, so that the wing arms 403 can be elastically deformed.

Example two

On the basis of the above embodiment, the fin arms 403 are located at both ends of the width direction of the pressing plate 402, the pressing plates 404 inclined toward the direction of the heat insulating member 3 are arranged at both ends of the length direction of the fin arms 403, and the pressing plates 404 are pressed on the surface of the claw 301 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, as shown in fig. 4, four pressing plates 404 are provided, and the center and four apex angles of the heat insulating member 3 are pressed by the pressing plate 402 and the four pressing plates 404, so that the protection of the temperature sensor 2 is enhanced, the sensed temperature is not influenced by the outside, the temperature sensor 2 and the heat insulating member 3 are more reliably fixed, and the ice tray 1 cannot fall off when being twisted.

EXAMPLE III

On the basis of the above embodiment, a gap is left between the heat-insulating fixing frame 4 and the bottom of the ice tray 1, so that a heat dissipation channel 11 is formed between the heat-insulating fixing frame 4 and the ice tray 1. As shown in fig. 9, gaps are respectively formed between the arc-shaped portion 4031 and the L-shaped bending portion 4032 of the fin arm 403 and the ice tray 1, and when the protruding portion 401 is inserted into the engaging portion 10, the protruding portion can be axially limited by an axial limiting shoulder, so that the heat-insulating fixing frame 4 is fixed in position in the width direction, and the heat-dissipating channel 11 is ensured to be smooth.

Example four

An ice making machine comprising the ice making tray described above.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms "center", "length", "width", "bottom", "axial", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments.

In light of the foregoing, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art from this disclosure that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the content of the specification, and must be determined according to the scope of the claims.

Claims (12)

1. An ice-making tray, characterized in that: the ice tray comprises an ice tray (1), a temperature sensor (2) positioned at the bottom of the ice tray (1), a heat preservation piece (3) and a heat preservation fixing frame (4), wherein the heat preservation piece (3) is pasted at the bottom of the temperature sensor (2), and the heat preservation fixing frame (4) is connected with the ice tray (1) and covers the lower surface of the heat preservation piece (3);

the bottom of the ice tray (1) is provided with a first positioning part and a second positioning part which are abutted to two ends of the temperature sensor (2) in the length direction, the heat preservation piece (3) is provided with a claw part (301) extending towards the width direction of the ice tray (1), and the claw part (301) is fixed with a connecting block (6) between adjacent ice making grooves (5).

2. The ice-making tray according to claim 1, wherein: the heat preservation piece (3) is of an I-shaped plate-shaped structure, and four claw parts (301) extend outwards from the heat preservation piece (3) along the width direction.

3. The ice-making tray according to claim 1, wherein: the first positioning part is two limiting columns (7) fixed at the bottom of the ice tray (1) and abutted to one end of the temperature sensor (2), and a lead (201) of the temperature sensor (2) is located between the two limiting columns (7).

4. The ice-making tray according to claim 3, wherein: the second positioning part is a baffle (8) which is fixed at the bottom of the ice tray (1) and is abutted against the other end of the temperature sensor (2).

5. The ice-making tray according to claim 4, wherein: a ribbed plate (9) is connected between the side surface of the baffle (8) and the bottom of the ice tray (1).

6. The ice-making tray according to claim 2, wherein: the bottom of the ice tray (1) is provided with two oppositely arranged clamping parts (10), and the heat-preservation fixing frame (4) is provided with a convex part (401) inserted into the two clamping parts (10).

7. The ice-making tray according to claim 6, wherein: the heat-preservation fixing frame (4) comprises a pressing plate (402) and finned arms (403) extending outwards from two sides of the pressing plate (402), and the two protruding parts (401) are respectively positioned at the edges of the two finned arms (403); the pressing plate (402) presses the lower surface of the heat preservation piece (3).

8. The ice-making tray according to claim 7, wherein: the wing arms (403) are positioned at two ends of the width direction of the pressing plate (402), pressing sheets (404) inclined towards the direction of the heat preservation piece (3) are arranged at two ends of the length direction of the wing arms (403), and the pressing sheets (404) are pressed on the surfaces of the claw parts (301) in a one-to-one correspondence mode.

9. The ice-making tray according to claim 7, wherein: the wing arm (403) comprises an arc-shaped part (4031) with one end connected with the pressing plate (402) and an L-shaped bending part (4032) connected with the other end of the arc-shaped part (4031), and the two arc-shaped parts (4031) and the pressing plate (402) form a groove-shaped structure.

10. The ice-making tray according to claim 7, wherein: a gap is reserved between the heat-preservation fixing frame (4) and the bottom of the ice tray (1) so that a heat dissipation channel (11) is formed between the heat-preservation fixing frame (4) and the ice tray (1).

11. The ice-making tray according to claim 6, wherein: the two clamping parts (10) are in long-strip-shaped hole-shaped structures.

12. An ice making machine, characterized by: an ice-making tray comprising the ice-making tray of any one of claims 1 to 11.

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